Holes Quotes - Page 14

• Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Worry, Caddies

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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• According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

  Herbert Wind

  Golf, Edinburgh, Caddies

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• When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Son, Golf

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• On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Bags, Alligators

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• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Years, Play

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• No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

  Sam Snead

  Giving Up, Drinking, Golf

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• Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive.

  Brian Weiss

  Fun, Golf, Stories

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• I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Cutting, Half

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• It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Earth, Break

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• My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.

  Gene Sarazen

  Golf, Jumping, People

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• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  Robert Hunter

  Golf, Player, Scratches

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• I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

  Walter Hagen

  Mistake, Golf, Perfect

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• G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

  Richard Armour

  Golf, Green

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• I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Golf, Missing, Balls

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• Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

  Tim Allen

  Tired, Golf, Missing

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• That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Golf, Should

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• Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Song, Hurt, Laughter

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• Hate is a hole that exists in your heart; and the more that you hate, the more you fall apart.

  Wes Fesler

  Hate, Fall, Heart

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• Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

  George Canning

  Blow, Order, Knives

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.557

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• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
  Your heart's an empty hole.
  Your brain is full of spiders,
  You've got garlic in your soul.

  Dr. Seuss

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

  William Hazlitt

  Failure, Winning, Games

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk Or Original Essays. - London, Colburn 1822”, p.149

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• His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Ignorance, Intelligence

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• Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

  Groucho Marx

  Sarcastic, Running, Sap

  "Fictional character: Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff". "Horse Feathers", 1932.

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• So, the next time you're out working on your game and they pass you the rock, don't just take it to the hole. Take it to the next level. Don't just bend rims. Bend expectations. Let them see you and feel you and by the very virtue of your love, the truth in your game, they will hear you. Let your game speak.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Attitude, Rocks

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• I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Light, Black

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